Poeng.link
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

imgs.xkcd.com

message-square
57
link
fedilink
443

xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

imgs.xkcd.com

xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago
message-square
57
link
fedilink

xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

Title text:

A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.

Transcript:

Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com

Source: https://xkcd.com/3138/

explainxkcd for #3138

  • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 days ago

    Can still work as long as you use the same ruler and just use referenced measurements.

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      9 days ago

      That 8” mark though 😂

      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        8 days ago

        I was sort of expecting a more in-your-face callout of the 6" being at the 5.5" mark, considering most men…

xkcd@lemmy.world

xkcd@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !xkcd@lemmy.world

A community for a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 47 users / day
  • 777 users / week
  • 2.36K users / month
  • 6.57K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 13K subscribers
  • 302 Posts
  • 1.57K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • koraro@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org